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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Nishuane Well Project Gets Backlash from Vocal Residents

This is the second article of two covering the meeting about Nishuane Park well project on Wednesday night.

  This is the second part of a two part story about the Nishuane Park water well project. Click here to read part one. The proposed construction of a water well in the 4th Ward is roiling nearby residents who turned out Wednesday to criticize and object to the project.  More than 80 residents crowded into the conference room in the municipal building yesterday to condemn the township's plan to place a water treatment facility on a half acre of protected open space in Nishuane Park.  “It is one of the last vestiges of beautiful parkland left in Montclair ... and all of us use it,” said resident Dr. Jason Slosberg. “We don’t want this to happen. ... I want that park to stay there.” This project is like having “a bridge to no where in …

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8:10 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013

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